Madam, - Dervla Murphy (December 20th) writes that the standard of care provided by local doctors in remote Cuban towns is better than Caredoc in Ireland provides.
Let us not forget that Cuba is a country so crippled by communism that many doctors abandon medicine in favour of working as waiters or barmen in the tourist economy. This gives them access to the convertible peso or cuc, without which life would be a misery.
Would Ms Murphy like to go and live in Cuba to better enjoy its medical service while struggling to survive on meagre rations and minute monthly wages? I think not. The grass is always greener. . . - Yours, etc,
LAURA EGAR, Olcovar, Shankill, Co Dublin.